IPC Section 225A

Indian Penal Code

Description

Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to apprehend, or to keep in confinement, any person in any case not provided for in section 221, section 222 or section 223, or in any other law for the time being in force, omits to apprehend that person or suffers him to escape from confinement, shall be punished:

if he does so intentionally, with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine or with both; and

if he does so negligently, with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.